LEE RODGERSPUTIN PULLS POWER PLAY ON OBAMA ...
TWO VIEWS OF LATEST B.O. POWER-GRAB ...
BIG MEDIA INTEREST IN BUSH'S GOLF, NOT OBAMA'S
TWO VIEWS OF LATEST B.O. POWER-GRAB ...
BIG MEDIA INTEREST IN BUSH'S GOLF, NOT OBAMA'S
Russia is openly boasting of its support for the murderous Assad dictatorship in Syria, with armament support including advanced missiles. Putin's message to Obama and the cowering western nations is clear: "We'll do as we please, when and where we please, and you haven't the guts to do anything about it."
Judging from their behavior after a private meeting yesterday in Mexico, Putin gave Obama a dressing-down.
While most Americans don't want another military engagement in that rat's nest called The Middle East, the more serious question is: what would Obama do if Putin did threaten our own -- and obvious -- interests elsewhere? I suspect we know the answer to that ... and cringe.
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Jay Leno --
"There's a rumor going around that suggests President Obama may legalize marijuana as an October surprise to win the election. And if he doesn't win, at least he'll have a way to mellow out later."
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Congressman Allen West on Laura Ingraham's radio talk-show, speaking out about Obama's unilateral decision to alter immigration law ...
"What country did we wake up in on Friday?," West asked. "It just causes people to ask, where are we? You know, the last time we had this was with King George III, and we didn't like it too much. And I think that you’re seeing the resurrection of an imperial presidency, and the arrogance thereof. To think that you can come out and basically tell the American people that this is what we're going to do ... and don't question me.
"He could have brought [immigration] up back in 2009, and got it through. And also it was just not even a year ago -- September 2011 -- when his own admission, this is something he said he could not do, that he did not have the power and authority to do. So what has changed from September 2011 to where we are today? Political expediency."
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James Robbins (Washington Times) points out the consequences of Obama's latest power-grab on immigration ...
“These are young people who study in our schools, they play in our neighborhoods, they’re friends with our kids, they pledge allegiance to our flag,” the president said in an attempt to redirect the national conversation. What he left out is that these newcomers also take our jobs. Most of the estimated 800,000 immigrants to whom the policy applies are of working age, pitted against young citizens in the competition for scarce employment. The struggle is fierce; youth unemployment and underemployment are about double what the rest of the country is suffering. Young voters who supported Mr. Obama in 2008 have to ask if this is the hope and change they expected.
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Survey says ... Most Americans still believe the U.S. economy will be weaker or unchanged in a year's time. Fewer than half expect the economy to be stronger even five years from now. (Rasmussen)
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Obama -- uniter or divider? Thomas Sowell weighs in ...
"Among the people who are disappointed with President Obama, none has more reason to be disappointed than those who thought he was going to be 'a uniter, rather than a divider' and that he would 'bring us all together.'
"It was a noble hope, but one with no factual foundation. Barack Obama had been a divider all his adult life, especially as a community organizer, and he had repeatedly sought out and allied himself with other dividers, the most blatant of whom was the man whose church he attend for 20 years, Jeremiah Wright.
"Now, with his presidency on the line and the polls looking dicey, President Obama's re-election campaign has become more openly divisive than ever.
"He has embraced the strident 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, with its ridiculous claim of representing the 99 percent against the 1 percent."
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Have you noticed that the supine Big Media whores have had little to say about Obama playing his 100th round of golf since becoming president? It's revealing, considering that the same leftist media criticized Bush endlessly when he played much less often -- he played fewer times in eight years than Obama has in 3 1/2 -- and quit during the Gulf war. ("I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf." -- George W. Bush, 2003)
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The Chicago murder scoreboard over the weekend shows seven killings and another 35 people wounded as the city continues its climb toward the title, "Murder Capital of America." Meantime, more than a hundred Chicago police officers were occupied with serving as security guards at the wedding of the daughter of Obama's eminence grise, Valerie Jarrett.
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It didn't take long. After the socialists won the parliamentary election in France over the weekend, the new government announced a marginal tax rate of 75%. And in the White House, Barack Obama is wishing he could do the same.
Meantime, prosperous French are leaving the country; a recent report said that Britain, hardly a low-tax haven itself, now has its largest French population ever.
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We are on the horns of a dilemma not of our making or choosing. Europe's economic problems continue to mount even with a temporary (probably VERY temporary) relief in Greece.
No doubt an economic collapse across the Atlantic would have negative repercussions in our own troubled nation, but how can we be expected to help those folk, burdened as we are with our own enormous debt, much of which is owed to China? We should borrow MORE from China to assuage the debt problems of irresponsible European governments which have already been emulated by our own silly government?
There's also the lingering bad taste left by some European nations, especially France, with their ingratitude and downright hostility after we saved their sorry butts in two 20th-century wars. Now, some in the Eurozone say their financial crisis is -- guess what! -- America's fault!
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If I hadn't lived and worked there for twenty-five years, I wouldn't believe it ... but the nuts who run the world's largest outdoor lunatic asylum, San Francisco, are spending $150,000 of taxpayer money to find out if sea-birds are frightened by sailboats. The goofy thinking behind it, as expressed by a former president of the Board of Supervisors of SF is that "when they take off because they are frightened, they expend energy, and that can affect their health."
And this clown is still walking around loose.
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The Patriot Post offers this bit of satire ...
White House sources tell me Michelle flew into a jealous rage when informed of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to limit soda sizes. She immediately gathered her staff in the East Wing and began creating a new set of proposals to reduce caloric consumption nationwide. Some examples ...
McDonald's employees required to apply electric shock to customers every time they say 'Supersize it.'
All Marijuana imported into the United States must be specially formulated so as not to induce 'the munchies.'
Donuts now required to have two holes.
Parents permitted to feed children vegetables via suppository.
Hostess Cupcakes to be filled with mashed potatoes.
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The Sky-guy contributes this domestic vignette ...
One evening, while sitting around the dinner table, our daughter looked up and asked her father, "Daddy, you're the boss right?"
Her father was very pleased by this and responded, "Yes"
Then, the little girl continued, "That's because mommy put you in charge, right?"
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY from Jewish World Review ---
"Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have."
--- Leigh Steinberg
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Jimmy Fallon--
"A new survey found that US Airways is the most hated airline in the country. Today, US Airways apologized to its passengers — then charged them a $50 apology fee."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."